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CONTENT Team
George Jones, Founding editor and Columnist
Based in San Francisco and previously the editor-in-chief of Maximum PC - the second largest PC magazine in the U.S., George Jones has led both print and digital editorial teams at IDG, Future US, and Ziff-Davis. George has been the founding editor of TabTimes and now writes the popular This week in Tablets column, published every Saturday.
David Needle, Executive editor
David Needle is an experienced, high tech news editor, reporter and writer/blogger, based in the Silicon Valley. Until recently the West Coast bureau chief of InternetNews.com, he previously worked for or collaborated with PCWorld, Information Week, Upside magazine and Infoworld.
Steven Lang, Managing editor and Business director
Steven Lang is a business and publishing veteran, having held senior editorial positions at Ziff-Davis, United Business Media (ex-CMP), Crain Communications, Institutional Investor, and McGraw-Hill. He leads events and business products strategy and content, including industry strategy guides and onine seminars. He is based in New York City.
Ray Aguilera, Technology editor
Ray oversees all Reviews and How-to articles for TabTimes. Based in San Francisco, Ray was formerly Reviews Editor at MacLife, the second largest magazine covering Apple products.
Doug Drinkwater, International editor
Doug is a British technology journalist who is based in London, UK. Doug was previously the news editor of Display Monitor, a weekly trade journal on the displays industry for Europe. He has news experience writing for national monthly magazines as well as daily and weekly local newspapers.
Daniel Mireault, Founding art director
Daniel Mireault is an accomplished designer with an impressive portfolio of web and mobile works. Among others, he worked on major projects for France Telecom, Bell Canada and Yellow Pages Group. He is based in Montreal.
Debbie Rouleau, Developer
Debbie is an experienced developer who previously worked in the BRANCHEZ-VOUS! and BV! media web production team. Based in Montreal, she will be in charge of the front-end user experience in TabTimes products
BUSINESS team
Patrick Pierra, CEO and Publisher
Patrick Pierra is an Internet pioneer in Canada. Having founded the Branchez-vous.com site in 1995, he then steered for fifteen years as CEO of BV! Media, a publicly-listed Canadian company which grew into the leading independent web publisher and web ad network in Canada. It was acquired by Rogers Communications in October 2010. Patrick directly handles marketing and partnerships. He is based in Montreal and travels frequently to New York City.
Rick Vandervoorn, Associate publisher and Vice president, sales
Based in New York City, Rick Vandervoorn has spent his entire career involved in marketing and business development for both B2C and B2B players in print, online and mobile publishing, including Ziff Davis/PC Magazine, Future US, GameWEEK, Ultramercial, Jingle Networks and iCall. Rick handles advertising and sponsorship sales on all platforms.
Pia Andrea de Soiza, Events and promotion manager
Pia was previously a Marketing and Communications associate with Silverstein Properties, owner and landlord of the World Trade Center site in New York and a growing international real estate firm. Prior to this, she held positions at fashion weeks in New York and Los Angeles and Elite Traveler Magazine. She is based in Manhattan, New York, while managing TabTimes events and marketing initiatives.
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